The National Crisis Headquarters is ready to take measures if weather conditions in Bulgaria deteriorate again, Bulgaria’s outgoing Minister of Interior Rumiana Bachvarova announced, Focus news agency informs. The snow-cleaning equipment and machines remain in the critical areas and I believe that we would deal successfully with another difficult situation. Moreover, we gained more experience in the recent calamities. In Minister Bachvarova’s view, the preventive measures taken by the state authorities yielded positive results and many people refrained from travelling. The good news is that people were not stranded on the roads for a long time and that there are no casualties or severely injured people during the latest calamity. People with health problems were taken to hospitals in advance, Minister Bachvarova further said.
The truck traffic on the Maritsa highway to the Captain Andreevo border crossing at the Bulgarian-Turkish border is now normalized. "As of this morning, there are no more queues of trucks standing on the roadway waiting to cross the border," assured..
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, searches have been carried out in Sofia, Burgas, Petrich and Rila in connection with an investigation into alleged fraud with EU funds in the restoration of a church. In 2017, a public tender..
One million and eight hundred Bulgarian citizens travelled as tourists during the third quarter of the year, National Statistical Institute data show. 72.3% of them travelled inside the country, 20.8% travelled abroad and 6.9% - both inside Bulgaria..
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Bulgaria’s caretaker Foreign Minister Ivan Kondov and his Albanian counterpart Igli Hasani confirmed the firm commitment of the two countries to the..
A cold front will pass through the country overnight and tomorrow from the northwest . Rain will fall in many places in the western regions and the Danube..
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